Re: using exim for simple mail delivery
Robert.Land@t-online.de (Robert Wilhelm Land) writes:
> Does exim allow the config. of simple mail delivery
> on the following system?:
>
> -One mashine, connected tmp. to the internet
> -one user with only one email adress and
> who likes to have his incoming mail sorted as:
> +one inbox for each subscribed maillist
> +one inbox for all the other mail
So you want to _receive_ mail with exim on a machine that is only
temporarily connected to the internet?
This is possible if you know what you're doing (and have a permanently
connected machine elsewhere that relays to you). However, it does not
really look like this is the case (no offense meant).
The "only one email address" part makes me think you really want to
poll an external mailbox using POP3 or IMAP. Exim does not have
anything to do with this, you need to use fetchmail or a MUA that does
it. Fetchmail would usually use procmail as a MDA.
> Unfortunately I can't figure out if mutt is able
> to handle multiple inboxs on only one
> email account. The mutt help only seems to discribe
> the marking of maillist mail with the help of the 'lists'
> definitions in ~/muttrc.
Again, it is not clear what you mean by "only one email account".
Once the mail is delivered on your system there are no mail accounts
but different folders or spool files.
Mutt can handle several mboxes or MH folders or similar somehow,
however I don't usually use it and can't help you there.
> I found this in ../exim/oview.txt:
> "
> There is support for multiple user mailboxes controlled by prefixes or
> suffixes on the user name, either via the filter mechanism or through
> multiple .forward files.
> "
> Does 'this' user name relate to the name I used when
> logging in my debian system?
It can but doesn't have to. However, this is really _not_ what you
want.
> People might advise me to have a look at procmail but
yes
> I thought of starting with a simple mail system
> avoiding any additional programs which might
> cause me to feel a bit helpless reading all those
> man pages.
The combination of fetchmail and procmail is very common and there is
lots of easy documentation about it.
HTH, HAND,
Ciao,
Jens
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